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Empowering business in a data-centric world


Date:Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Time:7:30 AM CT
Location:The Westin Galleria Dallas
13340 Dallas Parkway
Dallas, TX 75240






Informatica World Tour - Dallas, TX

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 7:30AM - 1:30PM CT

Agenda

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM   Breakfast and registration
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM   Welcome
8:05 AM - 8:50 AM   Perspectives on a Data-centric World
8:55 AM - 9:25 AM   Getting Started with 2 Big Data Projects: Data Warehouse Optimization and a Managed Data Lake
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM   Implementing a Hybrid Architecture for Distributing MDM Globally
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM   Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM   Data-centric Security for a Data-centric World
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM   Journey to the Cloud
11:25 AM - 11:55 AM   Building your Data Warehouse in the Cloud
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM   Key Takeaways 
12:15 PM  

*Cloud-sponsored Lunch

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*Cloud-sponsored Lunch

Informatica would like to invite you to lunch, hosted by the Informatica Cloud group. Join us as we discuss current challenges, best practices, breakthroughs and trends around cloud technologies. The agenda will include a variety of interactive panel discussions, customer presentations, technical content and networking sessions. Join business leaders as they define best practices to drive your business forward. No sign up is necessary, just stay for lunch.


Session Descriptions
Perspectives on a Data-centric World
Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, IT – Information Management, Ovum
Every day, we collect more data than the day before. More business transaction data. More human interaction data. More machine interaction data. Data is no longer the records we keep but it is becoming the fuel for better customer interactions, smarter products. This keynote will discuss the trends and technologies that are fundamentally changing our landscape towards a data first mindset and how next-generation data technologies can be leveraged to unleash the potential locked up in your systems. 
Getting Started with 2 Big Data Projects: Data Warehouse Optimization and a Managed Data Lake
John Haddad, Senior Director Product Marketing, Informatica
To leverage Big Data for greater business agility and innovation, you need to speed up the process of finding, accessing, and preparing Big Data for analysis — while still controlling costs in your data warehouse environment. Find out how Hadoop lets you redistribute data storage and processing to optimize for cost, performance, and scalability by creating a new data management infrastructure called a Data Lake.
Implementing a Hybrid Architecture for Distributing MDM Globally
Ian Stahl, Director of Product Management, Informatica
Hybrid MDM integrates multiple MDM solutions across domains, geographies, MDM styles, and deployment approaches, exposing the master data to business users as a single seamless data layer. Through best practices and real-world case studies, learn how to implement, manage, and globally distribute Informatica's Hybrid MDM architecture in conjunction with Data Integration Hub and Vibe for powerful business solutions. 

Data-centric Security for a Data-centric World
Robert Shields, Principal Product Marketing Manager, ILM Test Data Management and Data Security, Informatica
Increasing privacy regulations — and increased public attention to data breaches — make it critical to protect financial records, personal information, and other sensitive data. Learn about the latest data security trends, see updates to Informatica's data privacy and Test Data Management offerings, and find out how Informatica protects sensitive information in real time and in non-production environments without requiring costly, time-consuming changes to applications and databases. 

Journey to the Cloud
Ron Lunasin, Sr. Director, Cloud Platform Adoption, Informatica
Technology megatrends such as SaaS, social, mobile and Internet of Things are transforming where business data resides, what business data is comprised of, how we access business data and who are the users of business data. The result is that every company, in every industry, must respond to these megatrends and manage data in a new way as the where, what, how and who of business data is now in a hybrid world and eventually moving to the cloud. In this session, learn about Informatica’s industry first complete Cloud integration and Data Management platform for the move to the cloud. Key use cases for journey to the cloud includes data migration, data synchronization & replication, cloud process automation, cloud mdm, lift and shift patterns, and cloud data warehousing.
Building your Data Warehouse in the Cloud
Randall Gayle, Director, Informatica Practice, Perficient
In today’s world, companies are looking to leverage the economics of PaaS and SaaS, but transitioning from on-premise systems to cloud-based systems is often fraught with increased data integration challenges. And, it doesn’t need to be that way. Learn how a large retailer with a substantial network of stores implemented the Informatica Cloud and Amazon Redshift solutions to build their data warehouse in the cloud. This enabled enterprise reporting and real-time analytics, increased performance and reliability, and added flexibility to adapt to their future needs. Understand the business benefits, infrastructure considerations, and lessons learned from this implementation.


Speakers

Tony Baer Tony Baer
Tony Baer leads Ovum’s Big Data research area. Over his 25 years in the industry, he has studied issues of data integration, software and data architecture, middleware, and application development. Having tracked the emergence of BI and data warehousing back in the 1990s, Baer sees similar parallels emerging in the world of Big Data today. His coverage focuses on how Big Data must become a first-class citizen in the data center, IT organization, and the business. Baer has a multi-disciplinary background touching the different tiers of enterprise software. His expertise in data management is complemented by deep background in software development platforms and integration architecture. 
John Haddad John Haddad
John Haddad is Senior Director of Big Data Product Marketing at Informatica Corporation. He has over 25 years’ experience developing and marketing enterprise applications. Today, he advises organizations on Big Data best practices from a management and technology perspective. Prior to Informatica, John was Director of Product Marketing and Management at Right Hemisphere (acquired by SAP) and held various positions in R&D and Business Development at Oracle Corporation. John holds an AB degree in Applied Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.
Ian Stahl Ian Stahl
Ian Stahl is Director of Product Management for Applications at the Informatica MDM Business Unit. In this capacity, Ian defines our Master Data Management product strategy and roadmap for data governance applications, as well as development frameworks for MDM-aware applications. Ian joined Informatica from IBM, and previously Initiate Systems, with more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software, and Product Management and Product Marketing for Master Data Management.
Robert Shields Robert Shields
Robert leads product marketing for Informatica's data security, data privacy and test data management solutions. Robert is responsible for product positioning, strategy, GTM, sales tools and sales enablement, analyst briefings and thought leadership of all related software products. These products include the award winning Dynamic Data Masking solution, Test Data Management (including persistent data masking, data subset and test data generation) and Cloud Test Data Management.
Ron Lunasin Ron Lunasin
Ron Lunasin is Sr. Director of Cloud Platform Adoption for Informatica Corp. and is an 18 year veteran of the company. He has held various roles at Informatica from software engineer to internal IT data warehouse manager to product manager for Informatica’s flagship on-premise product PowerCenter to then becoming one of the founding members of Informatica’s Cloud business unit.
Randall Gayle Randall Gayle
Randall applies his nearly 30 years of data management experience to helping companies develop solutions around master data management, data quality, data governance and data integration across a wide range of industries from oil and gas and financial services to healthcare, government, retail and manufacturing.


Learn about technology shifts that are propelling us forward in a data-centric world – where data is not a by-product, but the fuel that powers transformations in business, society, and individual lives. With cloud applications, mobile devices, and globally dispersed teams – data is everywhere and it matters more than ever.

During the Informatica World Tour, industry experts will discuss innovations that will take the concept of a data platform to an entirely new level and present Informatica’s vision to transform data into insight. Speakers will include customers, independent industry analysts, and Informatica luminaries.


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